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Q&A with Ash Maurya on Scaling Lean

In the book Scaling Lean, Ash Maurya explores how entrepreneurs can collaborate with stakeholders to establish a business model for a new product or service using Lean Startup principles. It builds on top of his first book, Running Lean, showing how to use experiments, measure business progress, and scale your startup.

Ben Linders
on Apr 26, 2017
Development

Always Be Publishing: Continuous Integration & Collaboration in Code Repositories for REST API Docs

API documentation is an often overlooked part of making any API a success. This article explores how to make the documentation part of a continuous integration pipeline keeping it closer to the code itself.

Anne Gentle
on Apr 25, 2017
Culture & Methods

Does IT Industry Need Better Namings?

The IT industry borrows terms from other domains, which is a fairly good approach. But we distort their meanings or use terms in inconsistent ways, within IT and also in comparison to other disciplines. This article shares some of these leaky terminologies with examples, explains why this matters and suggests how to deal with inconsistencies and improve the situation.

Ionut Balosin
on Apr 24, 2017
Culture & Methods

People Re-Engineering How-To’s: Mentoring As A Service

The software industry revamps half of its people every five years with fresh grads, causing a state of Perpetual Inexperience. People Reengineering proposes Mentorship As A Service to fight this phenomena through one of its threads of action that seamlessly instills professional maturity into the new generations for better performance and people retention.

Medhat Sabry
on Apr 22, 2017
AI, ML & Data Engineering

From Alibaba to Apache: RocketMQ’s Past, Present, and Future

Feng Jia and Wang Xiaorui share the core distributed systems principals behind RocketMQ, Alibaba's distributed messaging and data streaming platform now open sourced through the Apache Foundation.

Wang Xiaorui Feng Jia
on Apr 21, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on The Rise and Fall of Software Recipes

Darius Blasband has written a book which challenges the conventional wisdom of software engineering: he protests against the adoption of recipes and standards-based approaches and rails against the status-quo. He calls himself a codeaholic who advocates for careful consideration of the specific context and the use of domain specific languages wherever possible.

Shane Hastie
on Apr 20, 2017
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2017

This year was the 11th for QCon London; it was also our largest London event to date. Including our 140 speakers we had 1435 team leads, architects, and project managers attending 112 technical sessions across 18 concurrent editorial tracks and 16 in-depth workshops.

Abel Avram
on Apr 18, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on The Manager‘s Path with Camille Fournier

In the book The Manager’s Path, Camille Fournier explores managing engineers and what it takes to be a technical manager. She describes the different roles which form the path from mentors and tech leads to senior engineering management, discusses the challenges of technical leadership and provides advice on how to deal with them.

Ben Linders
on Apr 18, 2017
Java

Want to Know What’s in a GC Pause? Go Look at the GC Log!

Sometimes a superficial analysis of our application performance can incorrectly have the Garbage Collector point to itself. A proper GC log analysis can lead us past the “blame the collector” game. When this happens, we can make amazing discoveries that improve the performance and stability of our applications.

Kirk Pepperdine
on Apr 17, 2017
Culture & Methods

Automation and Lean: Scaling up the Lean Value Chain

While lean principles enable us to be effective and innovative everywhere we work, finding automation opportunities across every technology and customer focused processes can unlock bigger potential for repeatedly delivering value to customers. This article shows how Ericsson applied lean principles in IT service delivery for automating manual repetitive tasks to improve quality and efficiency.

Sudip Pal
on Apr 15, 2017
.NET

Patterns and Practices in C# 7

C# 7 is a major update with a lot of interesting new capabilities. And while there are plenty of articles on what you can do with it, there’s not quite as many on what you should do with it. Using the principles found in the .NET Framework Design Guidelines, we’re going to take a first pass at laying down strategies for getting the most from these new features.

Jonathan Allen
on Apr 13, 2017
Mobile

How to Effectively Collect User Feedback in Mobile Application

This article analyzes a variety of forms of collecting feedback in mobile applications from a number of perspectives, including user experience, development, operations,and cost. It also analyzes in which scenario each form of feedback is more applicable, with the purpose of helping mobile application developers or product managers use the right feedback mechanism and improve their products.

Jianing Zheng
on Apr 11, 2017